Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mankind as a whole, we are, nevertheless, in very serious danger of falling into a belief on another kind,--the fatalism which is called the fatalism of the multitude. We are a little too much inclined to think that the individual is carried along by the spirit of his age, and that he has all he can do to go along with that spirit...
...that is not true. Men are not necessarily sheep. Men do not have to behave like sheep. James Russell Lowell in the later years of his life remarked that he had seen many spirits of the age and some of them never came on, and that is unquestionably true. It is very much in the hands of any man, who chooses to do so, to have a very perceptible influence on the spirit of the age in which he lives and on the destiny of the age which is to follow. There has never been any time in the history...
...being twenty-one years of age or more, has been connected for at least one academic year with any department of Harvard University (except the Summer School) as a student or as an officer of instruction or administration...
...Continental Europe since 1815), which is not open to students who have already taken History 2b, since that course covered approximately the same ground; and History 30b (the Expansion of Europe since 1915), which is open to students who have taken History 30a or History 2b. History 42 (the Age of the Renaissance in Europe) and Economics 23 (Economic History of Europe to the middle of the Eighteenth Century) will be given, not as full courses, but as half-courses in the second half-year. History 24 (History of the Church since the Reformation) and probably History 19 (The Eastern...
...workers were massed on one or two problems. More intimate study of particular phases and situations has been the result: Especially significant is the increase in juvenile court work, a kind of social endeavor for which the college student is pre-eminently fitted by reason of his age and generally hopeful outlook upon life...